Bøger af Karen Jacobs

This comprehensive resource is designed to equip occupational therapy assistant (OTA) students and new practitioners with the knowledge required for effective skills in management, administration and leadership.Comprehensive and user-friendly this 2nd edition is an essential text for any student or new practitioner.

Breakfast with Grandma Ruthie is an engaging story of a little girl, Alizah who is faced with a change in her peaceful home life when her great grandmother who has dementia moves into her home. With the support of an occupational therapist and her parents, Alizah learns that she can help Grandma Ruthie, too.

Soaring With Jimmy brings to life the story of a young boy with autism who attends a summer day camp, called Camp Quest. With the help of his "shadow," an Occupational Therapy student and camp counselor, Jimmy's character and courage are able to shine through to his fellow campers. Join Jimmy in his summer adventure to find out how he reveals his spirit at Camp Quest. He does so despite some setbacks that often come with a diagnosis of autism.

Jacobs and Miller present a handy guide to selecting and loading a child's backpack, and they also discuss how the backpack should be worn.

Now revised and updated into a sixth edition, this pocket-size resource includes the latest information in the field of occupational therapy. It remains the only comprehensive dictionary available specifically for occupational therapy. Conveniently sized, this dictionary provides a quick reference to words, their definitions, and important resources used in daily practice and academic training.

Comprehensive skills in management, administration, and leadership are essential for occupational therapy assistants (OTA) in their daily interactions with their clients in various health care environments. Dr. Karen Jacobs has gathered an expert team of 11 contributors to address each of the ACOTE Standards with a focus on evidence-based literature and examples of the leadership and management skills needed as an OTA.

The Eye's Mind significantly alters our understanding of modernist literature by showing how changing visual discourses, techniques, and technologies affected the novels of that period. In readings that bring philosophies of vision into dialogue with...

The story of ethnographic collecting is one of cross-cultural encounters. This book focuses on collecting encounters in the Kamoro region of Papua from the earliest collections made in 1828 until 2011.